"Hm." Sasuke looks up from his book and stares intently off in the distance. Keen observers notice that he's staring north. "I have the feeling that justice was served. That someone who always plays with fire finally got burnt."
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In the Prison
"Welcome, newest plaything, to the warship's hold." The head jailer says with a grand sweeping flourish.
"Uh… you've already thrown us both into cells?" I awkwardly point out. "The time for that introduction was when we walked into the room, not when you've already chained me to a wall. And about that, can you let me down? Please? Also it's a blimp."
"No." She runs a manicured finger across my jawline. "You didn't say Mistress."
"Right… I'm totally not comfortable with this." I bluntly tell her. "So Koyuki, fancy a breakout?"
"A breakout?" The jailer scoffs at me and lightly pats my face. Why is it the face? Why? "You're chained to a wall with chakra suppressing cuffs made of the strongest metal we have. You have zero hope for an escape attempt, even if you do somehow miraculously get out of those restraints you have to get through your Mistress who will be very displeased with her newest toy."
"What she said." Koyuki weakly says as she's huddling in the corner of her own cell. She's hugging her legs to her chest in defeat, she's been beaten already. Not physically, but she's lost hope. She's given up. "Minus the Mistress part. I want nothing to do with that."
Okay, so maybe she hasn't given up entirely if she's joking. Ah, I bet she's waiting for the rest of the Konoha team to come save us. Too bad I'm not going to sit here and wait for them.
"Just because you don't see a way out doesn't mean there isn't one." I stare the kunoichi into her eyes. "So… are you willing to surrender or do I have to get creative?"
"Ha! Me surrender when I have you chained to a wall? No, no. The fun hasn't even started yet, I get you for a few more hours. At the minimum." She walks over to a table and unrolls a cloth bundle to reveal various tools. They're not all torture tools either, of course there's the usual rusty blades, pristine knives and blunt bludgeoning instruments but she has feathers and honey and… whipped cream? "Which do you want first? Pleasure or pain?"
"Yeah that's not going to happen." I disregard her and turn to Koyuki. "Grab your things Princess, we're leaving. I've had enough of this."
"Aw how cute, you think you have power here." The jailer grabs a sharp gleaming knife and stalks over to me. "The only thing you have here is me. Me and whatever I decide to do to you."
She swiftly slashed the blade across my chest, severing my shirt from hip to shoulder and lightly cutting into my torso. It's not a serious wound, my skin was barely broken. At best it's a superficial wound. One meant to cause intense pain instead of dealing damage.
"Oh." I lazily look down at the sinisterly grinning kunoichi. "So you've started with pleasure?"
"Pleasure? No that was pain. Perhaps you need more?" She expertly twirled the blade around her fingers like someone would a coin. "Usually I get at least a wince of pain with that."
"You'll have to step your game up." I casually respond to her. "Pain and I are very close friends. Some would say we have a blossoming romance."
"You're putting on a magnificent act." The jailer praises me. "But bravado will only get you so far. I'll break you, I've broken everyone. You'll be screaming Mistress, just wait."
"You think I'm bluffing?" I snort out in amusement. "Tell ya what, since someone rudely ruined my shirt by cutting it in two, why don't you take a look at my chest. Then tell me if I'm bluffing."
"If you insist." She steps forwards and grabs a fistfull of my sliced shirt. "This is just in the way, how about we remove it completely?"
She rips the ruined shirt off of me revealing my torso to the world.
I'm rewarded with the sound of two sharp gasps, both the jailer and Koyuki are staring at me with wide horrified eyes.
"Now you see I wasn't bluffing." I darkly say to her as the already cold temperature in the room plummets. "What you did to me was as refreshing as a summer breeze, a gently caress from a lover. You do not know pain. Don't worry, I'll teach you."
I smoothly slide both of my hands out of the restraints that have been bolted onto the wall. I'm mimicking the Soft Physique Technique, I had the rigid threads in my hands that mimic bones go slack to slip out of the tight bindings. It looked like my hands went completely boneless for a few seconds. I do the same with the restraints on my feet, my feet go completely slack and I tug them out of the bindings. I'm free.
But it's not enough.
I let the Jiongu out of my wrists and will it to wrap around the kunoichi. She's being restrained by her wrists, her feet and her neck. She didn't even try to dodge, she's just staring at me with wide horrified eyes.
A lone thread breaks off from the rest and fishes around in her pockets, after searching in two of them it pulls out a key. Not just any key, the key to the chains I was just in. The lone thread quickly unlocks the restraints and I maneuver the jailer to take my place. With four loud clicks she's locked in place, completely helpless to do anything at all. Completely at my mercy.
"Now then." I reel in the black threads that were holding her. "I'll be going now, thanks."
Like nothing outlandishly freaky happened I turn away from her and walk over to the door to my cell. With a specific application of force I smash the lock.
Okay fine I kicked the door down.
"Koyuki shall we depart? It's dreary is this place, it's not good for my complexion." I kick her door down too, driving the heel of my foot with as much force as possible into the lock to shatter the intricate components.
"You're actually saving me?" She asks in confusion. "But you always seemed so… so indifferent. Like nothing mattered to you as long as I keep breathing. Sometimes I even thought that was optional."
"People change." I hold a hand out to her to help her to her feet. "Plus I'm supposed to keep you alive for Shikamaru, I don't want him to get a bad mission record back in Konoha. We're friends, it's what we do."
"Okay." She takes my hand and I pull her to her feet. "But how are we supposed to get off the warship?"
"Blimp." I correct her. "And I have no idea. I'm sure something will miraculously work out for us. If not then we can wait until it lands or I could just steal it. But who the hell wants a blimp? Where would I put the damn thing when I'm not using it?"
"You're surprisingly relaxed for someone who was just about to be tortured." She points out.
"You're surprisingly relaxed for someone who just saw all of my scars." I counter. "Usually people freak the fuck out and I have to calm them down. It happens all the time."
"Oh, those are makeup." She waves me off.
"Uh no they're -"
"They're makeup." She growls out at me. "If they were real then I would be freaking out, but since they're makeup I'm fine. Because they're makeup."
"Ah. Right. Totally makeup." I see what she's doing, she's ignoring the obvious because she knows that she needs to leave and being traumatized by my scars will make her lock up. We can't afford that. "And whatever weird things I do are just crazy special effects. That's it. Just special effects."
"Yes." She attempts to convince herself. "Just special effects. Because shooting threads out of a wrist is just something that can't be done. It's a special effect."
"Exactly." I blandly agree with her. "So, shall we get going?" I gesture at the exit.
"Let's." We both make our way to the door.
"Wait!" The jailer calls out from behind me while rubbing her thighs together. "Master wait! You haven't punished me yet! Master I need to be punished! I've been a naughty girl and you have to discipline me!"
"Okay I admit that I toe the line a lot with my actions and what I say. But I'm always close to the line, sure I may step past it once in awhile but I never stray far from it. You, you sprinted past it while cackling like a madwoman. This is not the time or place for that, even if we were both into it - which I'm pretty sure I'm not but that is up in the air right now - you don't ask an escaped prisoner to torture you! Seriously woman learn some restraint!"
And with those parting words Koyuki and I leave the blimp's hold as the jailer wails in anguish behind us.
"Chick has issues."
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